Scott @ Law

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Adult Newfoundland dog laying down in hospital room. An x-ray of his paw and arm is backlit above him.

Our good boy put his paw through the front door window last night. He’s okay, as reflected in the included image. (Sorry, no video of his little snores when he became bored of the doctor’s office).

I don’t how NYT’s content machine would survive without New York City popups.

New pretextual-not-pretextual stop just dropped: failing to discontinue use of turn signal quickly enough.

Thank you for the link. It has been an interesting read.

I’m curious if Bloodstock Research had any particular value as a target or it just happened to have vulnerable architecture that piqued his curiosity.

I’m sad I can’t go into the Tiny Desk archives when I’m missing Modern Baseball.

Image of an adult landseer Newfoundland dog, standing in a living room facing the camera, with a blue inflatable donut around his neck, and a white sock hanging gently from his mouth. His facial expression is equal parts lethargic and challenging.

A little lightness in the timeline from my post-surgery full-sass pupper.

This tool is great. Super helpful if you've followed a lot of accounts but the algo has washed all the "I'm moving" t***ts.

I wonder if the distribution changes when the systems are compared. Is a 3.5 rater as likely to give a 7 to the same movie?

I view the stars-with-halves akin to letter grades with pluses. As in, “it’s a two-star movie, but that one actor was cooking—2.5.” (Chaos, I know)

I didn’t realize how much #mysteryhunt prepared me for being on a trial team. The only thing missing from our war room is @benmsmith.bsky.social’s cookies.

One issue I might not have fully considered when expressing my interest in complex litigation and civil procedure generally is how often the folks in this area are trying to do something that has never been done before (and thus has no precedent for guidance).

Getting sworn in.

I had the same feeling when they rolled the Steenbecks out of the film school I attended/worked at. Excited for the new technology, but nostalgic for the physical process that was going away.

Perhaps it's a correlation/causation issue, but I have seen quite the uptick in watch ads across social media since announcing my bar passage.

A Trademark Dispute Is Tearing the Tiny Film Photography Community Apart Small film camera businesses have been shocked to receive threatening emails from a company called CineStill over who has the right to use the term '800T.'

I posted about this on that other site. Film repacking company has active trademark on "800T" and has been going after other repackers and film sellers for using the word mark, which is a common descriptor of 800 ISO tungsten film. Cool to see the must-follow @design-law.bsky.social quoted.

Just a few small steps from owning a forest. (But seriously my fear would be my impatience in waiting for stock to dry)

Ah, yes, sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.

Thankfully my job doesn’t start until the 30th, but I will say it has been a very weird existence in the time between taking the bar and now.

I passed the Massachusetts bar exam.

This has been my take as well. It often comes off as trying to end up on the best-of list, especially when the possible answers can be so clearly narrowed down.

Bar results week has come to MA. Please send good vibes.

There’s still a couple more weeks before bar results are released. I managed to last a few good months before I slipped into 24/7 anxiety mode. No distraction has been good enough.

My old boss is a randonneur and he always said that no matter how long the ride was (200k, 400k, 600k…) the last 20% was always miserable. My experience definitely mimics this - though I would never admit it to Strava.

I need a deep dive podcast on the engineering pitfalls of the built-in restroom soap dispenser that eventually gets usurped by the $.99 bottle of dial on the sink rim.

Paying the dog tax for not posting on here as much as I should.

This was going to be my first #defcon, but taking the bar wiped out the last of the travel funds. Serious FOMO but happy to catch whatever ends up on YouTube. Can’t recreate the villages, sadly. Always next year.

I have successfully completed the taking of the bar exam.